When a fellow member defended Obama’s tax cut compromise during yesterday’s closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, an unidentified member of Congress reportedly shouted out, “F*ck the president,” proving Obama is morally weak. (Click the “READ MORE” button if you want to find out the mystery of what that asterisk is hiding!) Predictably, this has sent all of Washington into a tizzy, with shouts of “Why I never!” and ladies fainting all over the place. But meanwhile, British protesters showed what true incivility is, attacking a tuxedoed Prince Charles and his British-faced wife, splashing their armored car with white paint, denting its rear, and smashing one of its windows. Smashing a window of an armored car. This was all over some increases in college tuition, something that happens to American students approximately every five seconds without a word. Ten points to Gryffindor!
(“FUCK.” The member of Congress said “fuck.”)
A photograph of the couple, in formal evening dress, showed them registering shock as protesters beat on the side of their armored, chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce with sticks and bottles, smashing a side window, denting a rear panel and splashing the car with white paint. A Jaguar tailing the car and carrying a palace security detail was so battered that the police ended up using its doors as shields. [...]
[A witness] said Prince Charles and the duchess remained in their vehicle throughout and ultimately relaxed after a moment when the duchess, looking terrified, slid into the footwell beside the door. “He remained absolutely calm, he was beaming, as Camilla was,” the witness said. “People were just trying to have a chat with them.”
Yes. Quite. Cheerios, m’lady. Cheerios. [NYT/Roll Call]
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“People were just trying to have a chat with them.”
Is that what the Brits call it these days?
Actually, he probably did the right thing. Let Camilla lay on the floor boards. Charles is going to be King one day. He can't cower in front of some out of control college students.
Needed to go all King Harry on their asses and killed a few to set an example.
Chuck's a bit of a hippy, with the climate change/sustainability rap, so it wouldn't be in character to do that.
No, he'd off them in a humane and sustainable manner.
I was having a pint at the Hard Rock London with some of me military mates when the great poll tax riot in March of 1990 took place – and I can tell you, these fuckers KNOW HOW TO RIOT!
The blokes in the HRL were telling us that we should stay there because it probably wasn't safe for foreigners to be on the streets, so they called a car service to pick us up at the back door and take us back to the hotel where we were staying. It was some scary shit, I tells ya!
"and I can tell you, these fuckers KNOW HOW TO RIOT! "
Of course they do, they practice all the time at their soccer matches.
these fuckers KNOW HOW TO RIOT!
SGG, I believe Festivus fell in March during the early '90s. What you saw was not so much a "riot" as a rowdy 'Airing of Grievances.'
"Oi! Ewe! Yank! A word, if ya please…"
I think they call it a lorry.
Eeoooh maaaaw Gaaaaawd! (Who are these people again? I mean the protesters too.)
Maybe one of them had a saddle and was hoping to take Camilla for a spin. Tally-ho indeed, what-what!
Goggle "Pony Girl" some time – eye opening!
Bloody hooligans.
Actual footage http://media.funlol.com/content/img/ever-been-so-...
The symbols of authority must serve their purpose, much like pillows do in Gestalt therapy.
They just don't like guys that want to be tampons, nor the possessors of the vaginas said tampon wants to be inserted into.
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!"
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
Something something something
Tomorrow comes!
Rool Britannia.
They may cut your dick in half
and serve it to a pig.
And though it hurts, you'll laugh
and you'll dance a dickless jig
But that's the way it goes. In
war, you're shat upon!
Though you die..
…La Resistance… LIVES ON…
I think protests would be much more entertaining if musical / dance numbers were involved. Next time the UC regents meet, we should organize the "Jet Song" to intimidate our foes. See if they cut arts funding THEN (they will, always)
Is there anything left to cut from the UC arts budget? I had the impression that they were down to one leotard for all the dancers to share (male and female) and whatever spray paint they could salvage from Berkeley High School huffing parties up in the hills.
Damn, that means we're next. Sounds like we'd better start stockpiling inhalants in the Social Science buildings, just in case (for painting, and also for huffing, when the new TA contract goes into effect and we are all too poor to afford real drugs due to spending all our money on expensive, substandard housing stock)
12/9! Never forget!
Actually Prince William was trying to figure out a way to keep Camille from sitting in the "mom spot" in the church pew at his wedding. You have to admit, Di would have not worn a cross-dresser wig in public.
Weird, but it's shit like that that actually makes me feel sorry for those kids.
Ekshually, madam, being that they are Euros (though they would dispute this), their calendrical configuration would make this 9/12. Too close?
Viral marketing for The King's Speech, & to make Colin Firth's Academy Award candidacy seem even stronger. As if a period drama, about royals, at the opening salvo of the war in Europe/Battle of Britain, needs any further selling.
Anyway, Michael Douglas has that Best Actor shit locked-down, for A Solitary Man. Also, the dying.
Which is more worthless: British "royalty" or the Oscars? Discuss.
I just want to point out that if a bunch of unruly college students can break a window and dent the door panels you might want to spend a little bit more on the armoring of your limo. I realize that the door probably had something inside it to stop bullets but still.
See? When you raise tuition and students can't afford classes, they go work out instead. And drink.
Maybe they should add some hillbilly armor. If it's good enough for the troops in Iraq, it should be fine for the royals.
Needs moar guillotines…
Hey, this was in England, not France.
Holy hand grenades of Antioch, then.
"Your majesty! Your majesty! The peasants are revolting!!!"
/sees Camilla/
"The peasants are… um… upset!!"
He always ate in the Steak Bar.
He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
And uuuuse the doors for shields.
Well, they're both pretty horsey. The security detail must have put their blinders on to keep them from rolling their eyes, frothing, and bolting in terror.
As John Lennon said when fans swamped him and damaged his Rolls (although they were expressing adoration), "Leave 'em to it; they bought the fookin thing."
Class warfare at it infancy. The elite need to take heed. The masses are about to take a shit on their lawns.
Ya wish. But a protest of a tuition increase is really all about me me me.
I'm trying hard to have sympathy for the students, given I paid my own college bills. Still, tripling it in one year is positively Californian of them.
Praise be unto St. Ronnie!
His harsh policies on drug convictions and financial aid have kept the rising Male Latino college rate down for almost 30 years, all praise St. Ronnie for bringing about Mexican drug gangs.
The masses are about to take a shit on their lawns.
"Kids, put your Wellies on!"
In the words of Public Enemy "fuck him an John Wayne too"
Professor Griff must be confused. Yes, John Wayne worked in Hollywood, but, no, J-Dub was not Jewish.
It's hard out there for a walking anachronism, and member of an institution that should have abolished a century ago, who is both rich and famous simply because his mother is rich and famous, who is so simply because her father was rich and famous, etc. etc.
You're not really buying into the concept that these people are better than us, are you?
How I forget, these people had distant ancestors who were very powerful an important because their parents were powerful and important; I should have more respect for the prestige due to these people because of an accident of birth.
Get used to it – we're heading in that direction fast.
ie. The Bush Family
my god man! what language!! they have the ear of God. does that not earn them the right to have a car that may or may not be riot proof?
Whatever happened to the Divine Rights of the monarchy? First they took away Droit de seigneur; now the peasants aren't genflecting in the streets.
Baby Jebus weeps.
Are you talking about the Palins?
…a walking anachronism
Would it modernize the institution if Camsers stitched a comma and one more word 'pon the Garters of members of the Order of: "Honi soit qui mal y pense, beyotchez!"? Or, to keep with the French vibe they're rolling with, should the word be "putains" rather than the "beyotchez"?
The white paint symbolized… err, the lack of money available to students to buy red paint, like proper protesters, maybe?
Maybe they were just being patriotic and trying to paint a St. George's cross on the car, but the guy with the red paint was finally making progress chatting up some bird and said "sod it." That's what I'd like to believe…
And as much as I enjoy mocking our Imperial predecessors, this is not a run of the mill tuition increase. Not long ago the tuition at British universities was nominal, now it is around 5K and the average is (as best I can recall) is expected to move to around 15K and they don't have (at present) the need-based and merit-based aid sweeteners so common here in the Colonies.
them socialistys did it all wrong. they shoulda taken a lesson from their capitalistic betters here across the pond and instead of imposing a sudden tuition sticker-shock, just let tuition go up faster than inflation year after year for a generation, so that the youngs wouldn't remember a time when a higher education was affordable.
but they didn't. and now they have broken windows and white paint on one of their cars. revolution is in the air!
So basically what students in California went through in the late 80s and 90s? Seriously – 1990 Cal fees (no tuition) was something like $700 per semester. Within 3 years, it was over $5K a year, and med/law schools were hit with a bullshit extra multiplyer since we'd all be making so much money once we graduated. That rise crushed a lot of dreams and credit ratings, especially since there was no extra money for scholarships or grants.
Why shuld the peeple pay for edukashun when we dont even no if this scieze shit is real? Jimmy Inhofe clewed me in.
I love that picture of Camilla, although I have to wonder if she and Terence Stamp weren't separated at birth.
Terene Stamp looks better in makeup.
Plus, his wig is far more convincing.
She is wearing the expression that one generally sees on full-size blow-up dolls. Not that I have any personal knowledge, of course.
That was my first thought, actually, but I couldn't find a SFW image worth posting. For researchy comparison's sake, of course.
Princess Diana's driver would have gotten them through in seconds, or died trying.
LOL!
Too soon?
At least they didn't try to nail their heads to the floor.
How's that austery, stiffy lippy thing workin' out, David Cameron?
Charles is a little skittish, seeing as how he's named after a King who was beheaded by the common folk.
Eh wot?
The most interesting thing about King Charles I is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign but only four foot eight inches at the end of it.
A bit of bad luck then, eh mate?
I wonder what it would take to bring our own little college students into the street? Beer? The Draft? Closing of sex rooms in the frat houses?
According to my sources at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, it's the beer talking.
& honestly, I prefer that level of activism to the bullshit that was emanating from the flagship campus of the UW system, in the 60s/70s. Dwight Armstrong should be burning in hell, & David Fine, with him, whenever he shuffles off.
Nah. Just An MTV crew they could act like spoiled assholes in front of.
Losing an NCAA championship game in basketball or a key bowl game in football.
The military draft would do it, I suspect. Especially if there were some wars going on.
When I worked at UNH beer brought them out on the streets once or twice a year.
Pulling the plug on their X-Box 360.
Camilla is the real Bride of Chucky.
Today, we are all tuxedoed and British-faced.
I must refuse to read this post until the MOST IMPORTANT NEED is dealt with – tax cuts for millionaires. And it's more than just that, includes tax cuts for billionaires Also.
- John Boehner
I'm watching that
protestfilibuster on C-SPAN II, the sequel, right now!What would Edward Longshanks do? WWELD?
His mother thinks Chuck is more like Ethelred the Unready.
Well Dafydd ap Gruffydd and ol' Willie Wallace are two that had the guts to tell the drawn-out tale.
Prince Charles hasn't seen the Duchess make that face since the first time he whipped out his bangers and mash.
Do you think they bubble and squeak when he puts his toad in the hole? (I could make a joke about spotted dick, but that would be obvious)
♪♫ A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse of course
Unless, of course, that horse is
the famous Duchess of Cornwall ♫♪
Camilla Parker-Bowles and Sarah Jessica Parker walked into a bar. The bartender asked "Why the long face, ladies?"
demonstrators trying to smash their way into the Treasury building at the heart of the Whitehall government district with makeshift rams made from steel crowd barriers, shouting “We want our money back!”
The Brits can be so odd–overwhelm the cops, break into a government building with battering rams and then their only demand is for a refund.
Sounds like December 26 at any Wal-mart in USA America.
Btw there are so many Smiths songs going through Camilla's head in that photo. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Girl Afraid, Paint a Vulgar Picture, Rusholme Ruffians, Barbarism Begins at Home, Suffer Little Children, The Queen is Dead, Frankly, Mr. Shankly, Unhappy Birthday, Well I Wonder, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, The Headmaster Ritual, Sweet and Tender Hooligan, Panic, Money Changes Everything, I Know It's Over, Nowhere Fast, I Don't Owe You Anything, and of course…Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.
"I ride in Limos, I sit in the back,
I lock the doors, in case I'm attacked."
Oh, and Jack: "British-Faced"? Are going soft on us? That woman has to sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink fer Chrissakes! British-Faced indeed.
Thumbed up for appropriate use of song lyric. "Life's been good." Also.
Gawd, we MUST get that p up, so life is good to you, too!
Just what is that anyway? Maybe it's like a golf score and the lower the better? Or maybe our overlords are just screwin with us. And yes, life's been good. You as well, I hope.
A fellow old-timer Wonketeer, I assume :_)
Just plain old.
Ditto.
well, "Charles" is a bit unlucky name in British royal family
the first King to use that name ended up decapitated ..
You would be upset too if they charged you more for access to some world class buggery.
Compromise: $60 billion for poor people, $650 billion for rich republicans. Seems fair.
Reminds me of a tasteless joke:
The queen is on a game show & she has to figure out what an object is by asking questions about it.
Her first Q: Can you put it in your mouth?
Host: Yes, you can.
Her second Q: Is it a horse's cock? (must be said in a proper British accent)
Host looking flustered, red-faced & amazed: Why, yes it is!
A congress critter said "fuck"? About the Pres.? Where's that incivility when it comes to their "friends on the other side of the aisle"? Fisticuffs. Now!
ANARCHY IN THE UK
Right! NOW! ha ha ha ha ha
I am an anti-christ
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos I
I wanna BE anarchy!
No dogs body!
Anarchy for the U.K it's coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
your future dream is a shopping scheme
cos I, I wanna BE anarchy!
In the city
How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy cos I
I wanna BE anarchy!
THE ONLY WAY TO BE!
Is this the M.P.L.A
Or is this the U.D.A
Or is this the I.R.A
I thought it was the U.K or just
another country
another council tenancy
I wanna be anarchy
and I wanna be anarchy
Know what I mean
And I wanna be anarchist!
Get PISSED DESTROY !
Good times… Life has to get a bit more difficult to bring back the atmosphere when listening to that really got one good and riled. Or one could live in Cleveland…
I remember a time listening to this album on the headphones was so cathartic.
Our youngs have more to be pissed off about in this country, you would think they would be following the lead of the youngs across the pond. I guess it is hard to miss your World of Warcraft guild raid to protest for your future.
Was it Larry Craig who said "fuck the President"? Oh that's right he's no longer in Congress, now he just does old man gay porn. This story proves to me that the Brits are much better at civil disobediance than Murikans are. You know why? Cause they don't have to get off their Rascals to beat on a car. Granted, their anger is somewhat misdirected as the royals don't have shot to do with government anymore – but whatever. Pip pip Cheerio and all that rot.
Charles and Camilla. I'm confused! Which one is the dude?
You're not so confused as they are!
It's nice to know some country's citizens don't take supply-side austerity lying down. Here in America we only get that riled up about making healthcare affordable and other horrible commie initiatives. Stay unruly, Brits — America needs the example of a more-informed electorate. Not that you shouldn't have known this was what Cameron was going to do, but better late than never.
Here in America we only get that riled up about making healthcare affordable and other horrible commie initiatives.
Yes, but we're idiots. But we're exceptionally good at it.
We knew that was what Cameron was going to do, but Nick Clegg and almost all his Lib-Dems signed a pre-election promise to vote against all rises in tuition fees. Eight months later and they've voted to increase them threefold, so you can see why people are a little upset.
What I was shocked about was that I heard someone I'm sure is a right-wing commentator (she writes for the Express) argue against the very idea of students paying for education… basically she argued that if you get unemployment benefits, then later get a job, you don't have to pay back the government, so why should students pay back their education?
Of course, I don't remember any protests against fees when they were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government. Perhaps us Brits just like protesting Tory governments?
As you should.
Fucking Ada!
He finally became her tampon
"Camilla, they behave like paparazzi and this bloody limo has no seat belts. God save the King to Be".
You needn't wear your seat belt, Princess, Die.
speaking of f*ck:
WHERE THE F*CK WAS ALL THIS F*CKING SPINE FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS!?!?!!? AND HOW BOUT USING THIS F*CKING OUTRAGE TO PASS SOME OTHER F*CKING BILLS F*CKING DEMS?!?!
jesus.
"This was all over some increases in college tuition, something that happens to American students approximately every five seconds without a word. "
This reminds me of the University of Tennessee halftime show at the Kentucky game on Thanksgiving weekend. The band did a show call "The Twelve Days of Tennessee Christmas". Number 3 was "lower taxes for everyone" (like Tennesseans don't already pay the lowest per capita taxes in the nation), and number 4 was "lower tuition at UT". And I'm thinking, "Silly rabbits, you go to a state school. You can't have both."
Jesus, Tennessee makes Kentucky look like their "lights are on."
Still nobody home, however.
I admire any people who take to the street when they are fucked by their government. What do we do? Drink moar. Our college students couldn't even get up a decent demonstration against the war in Iraq.
American students are too addicted to high-fructose corn syrup to protest the bloody Queen
Sweet!
I liked the part where the guy said "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
Release the hounds.
Aren't there, like, Beefeaters and Coldstream Guards, and Gurkhas and irritable old ladies protecting the royal family at all times?
Did you hear? Instead of taking Charles along the backstreets to get to the theater as they are wont to do, the security detail thought it a wonderful idea to drive them right through the middle of a fucking protest with the excuse being "Well, it was a peaceful protest." The fuck? You drive through the very example of unearned wealth and you expect everyone to stop and fawn over the antiques in the Rolls? Really?
I think it is kinda cute that Prince Chuck thinks that Camilla could still be crowned as the Queen. She'd be stripped down faster than a Lexus, parked in front of a Detroit Meth lab.
Silly Barbara. We don't have meth labs in Detroit. Crack houses? Yeah, but you'll have to go north or southwest of the city to find the meth labs.
My monocle popped out!
well in the old days the hansom cab driver would just plow through the rabble leaving dead broken bodies strewn all over the place.
Be that as it may, what does it say when even European royalty is more in touch with the world than the GOP.
Prince Charles may be a Tory, but he's also a… RINO.
Charles is not that in touch with reality, though, as he is a big time backer of phony alternative "medicine" bullshit.
was it like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0naLFYv95uc
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